Improved washing-machine



STATES WILLIAM H. PERRY AND WALLACE WOODWORTH, OF LOS ANGELES,

CALIFORNIA.

IMPROVED WASHING-MACHINE.

Specilication forming part of Letters Patent No. @6,935, dated March 2l,1865.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM H. PERRY and WALLAcn` WooDwoRTn, of thecity of Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State ofCalifornia, have invented a new and useful Improvement inWashing-Machines; and we do hereby declare the following to be a fulland exact description of the same, reference bein g had to theaccompanying drawings, making part of this speciiication, in which-Figures 1 and 2 represent vertical sections of an improvedwashing-machine, the planes in which the respective views are takenbeing at right angles with-each other. Fig. 3 is a perspective view ofthe same with one of the side pieces removed to expose the interior.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the threefigures.

This invention relates to a washing-ma chine in which the foul water andsediment expressed from the clothes is caused to enter a chamber inwhich the sediment is deposited and retained, but from which the water,after being freed from the sediment, is by the action of the paddle andclothes forced back into the tub in a clean condition, as will behereinafter fully explained.

The following description will enable others skilled in the art to whichour invention appertains to fully understand and use the same.'

The different parts of the machine are designated by letters, asfollows: A is a lever; B, a wooden shaft-,to which the lever and paddleare attached C, the handle of the paddle D, the paddle-frame; E, thesides of the machine; F, the bottom; G, the spout to let out the sudswhen required; H, the legs I, the lid; J, the top piece exclusive of thelid; K, the ends of the machine; L, recesses between the ends of thebottom F and the end pieces, K. The bottom F is beaded or corrugated andforms the segment of a circle of which the shaft B may be said to be thecenter. The outside of the machine is composed of zinc, the ends ofwhich are inserted thus leaving a chamber, M, about threefourths of aninch deep in the center or bottom of the machine, and with outlets at LL of about three eighths of an inch. The purposes of this arrangementare these During the operation of the machine the paddle D squeezes theclothes against the corrugated surface of K, and the foul water which isthereby expressed passes into the chamber M, in which is deposited thesediment taken from the clothes, and while there is never agitation inthe chamber sufficient to throw out this sediment or prevent it frombeing deposited the water is constantly being renewed in the chamber, asthe injection by the stroke of the paddle at one mouth ejects a likequantity at the other. The chamber M may at any time becleansed bydrawing oft' its contents by a stop-cock in the spout N.

The shaft B works in suitable boxes set in the center of the top ofsides E, and is held to its place by the lid when closed and fastened atthe side next to J.

The washing is done by first filling the machine with soap-suds to thetop of the blue shade in Fig. l. Let the lever E and paddles D standperpendicularly; then put into the machine an equal quantity of clotheson each side of the paddle; then close and secure the lid; move thelever forth and back at each stroke, pressing the clothes up to andagainst the suds K with sufficient force to press the suds through andout o f the clothes. The clothes, being partially pressed into therecess L, are prevented from falling until those on the other side sinkinto the suds again, which they do with a rotary motion, constantlyexposing a new surface to the direct action of the paddle D, the suctionof the paddle also assisting in opening and respreading the clothes. Thefoul particles contained in the clothes are constantly carried with theexpressed suds into the mouth of M and lodge in the bottom thereof.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

Irovidinga washing-machine with a chamber, M, to receive the water afterit has been expressed from the clothes and retain the sediment,substantially as described.

W. H. PERRY. WV. VVOODWORTH.

Witnesses JAMES H. LANDER, J oI-IN D. Woonwon'rn.

